(Day)Dream House

In the context of intense daydreaming and "dreaming" in general, I found myself being drawn to location imagery and landscapes lately. (No, I have no intention to shift to landscape photography. As a matter of fact, I think I'd be really bad at it.) However, I think I will be posting a bit more of pictures of places that fascinate me and/or houses/spaces that inspire me in any way. 

So, I bumped on this Malibu beach house, aptly dubbed, "The Ultimate Bachelor Beach House" and I couldn't help but vision me in there. (I'd be a bit overwhelmed by all the white) This place had me at hello, with the workout deck & the fitness balls waiting for me there and everything. Now, If I only knew how to barbecue…

Only In New York: Can I Be There Now?

When I first saw these images I was like: "What a funny-looking tennis court?" but then I read what it was all about. The Hypar Pavilion, located on New York's Upper West Side, is an ultra-luxurious restaurant and at the same time, an awesome green urban park. 

Designed by New York-based interdisciplinary studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro (who, apparently, did some amazing stuff) the park is open to the public and not just the clients of the restaurant... Can I just beam myself there now?

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The 9/11 Museum

I was doing my daily online reading and was specifically gorging on some huge amounts of awesome stuff over at Fast Company's Design Blog, when I bumped on an amazingly put-together first look of The 9/11 Museum.

"In 100 years, there won't be anyone alive that experienced 9/11," says Steven Davis, whose architecture firm, Davis Brody Bond Aedas, is designing the 9/11 Museum. "What will you tell them? And how will you tell them, to make them understand what happened?"

The 9/11 Museum is expected to open on September 11, 2012 and works at ground zero, along with the released mock-up designs have started to give the shape, form, concept and feel of the museum away, which looks very... appropriate, if I may say.

Need to start planning another visit to NY for Fall 2012. 

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Allandale House: A Cabin of Curiosities

I'm not sure if the fact that I'm posting these architecture-related posts lately means something, but I guess I always had a thing for beautifully formed spaces and structures.

This awesome house is by architect William O’Brien Jr., Assistant Professor of Architecture at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, and it's located in Mountain West.

I love how the storage spaces are pretty much exposed, however, I am a bit intimidated by the huge windows, (imagine looking out those windows in the dark, in the middle of the mountains). 

Text from the architect's website:
Allandale House is an A-frame(s) house for an idiosyncratic connoisseur and her family. Along with its occupants, the Allandale House also provides space for an eccentric collection of artifacts that resist straightforward classification. Wines, rare books, stuffed birds and an elk mount are among the relics on display in this small vacation house.

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The Greenest, Most Innovative Apartment

Imagine an apartment only 32m2 (330 square feet) but capable of transforming into 24 rooms. It's like a spacious apartment with a TV room, a study, a projection room, and an island kitchen... 

Well, if you're Gary Chang, a Hong Kong-based architect, you can turn your teensy-weensy crammed apartment into a fully equipped, environmentally friendly and comfortable apartment with the use of moving walls, sepia tinted windows (which give the sunlight effect), and retracting rooms. 

I wonder though, how procedural one has to become in order to live in such an apartment? I think I would be able to live with moving a couple of walls around, however, I'm not that crazy about the extra bed sitting over the bathtub (EW!).

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Dream House

Now, I'm far from being in the process of building/buying a house, mainly because I have other unresolved issues to take care of before I finally decide to take the plunge and dive into the whole major debt nightmare. However, that doesn't mean that I don't have, at least, a vague idea of how I want it to be.

I bumped on this awesome house while surfing the internets the other day, and I was left stunned. Okay, I never thought of having a literal "roof garden" on top of my house and I would definitely keep the front of the house concealed behind trees, but the back yard glass screen, and the fair-faced concrete walls and their coexistence with the wooden surfaces are exactly how I'd like my space to be. Now, throw a swimming pool (with an adequate length for laps) and about 30 trees in the back yard, and you have my dream house.

The architect of the house above is Barcelona-based Enric Ruiz-Geli.

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